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Instructions:
1. enable USB debugging on the device
2. Download and Install android SDK (dont forget JAVA JDK if you havent got it yet)
3. now connect your device to your pc, you will see Windows will try to install appropriate driver for your device, if it installed properly then you're lucky, you can proceed to step 4, if not then we need to install the driver using USB driver you downloaded earlier, here's how..

3a. extract the usb_driver.rar you downloaded.

3b. open the folder you just extracted and look for android_winusb.inf, right click it and click open with, choose notepad.

3c. click start menu, and on the search bar, type device manager, then choose device manager on the search result.

3d. on device manager.. look for a not properly installed driver, on mine its arnova because i have arnova 7b g2 capacitive..

3e. right click on that driver --> click properties --> click on the details tab --> look for the hardware ids, it usually comes after device description on property section

3f. on the Value section, right click the shorter value and copy it. mine is like this... USB\VID_0E79&PID_143B&MI_01

3g. on the open notepad editing android_winusb.inf, look for this entries... there's 2 entries like this..
1 on [Google.NTx86] area and 1 on [Google.NTamd64].

3h. change Anova 7b g2 to your device name or whatever you want, im sure it doesnt matter as its just a comment .. on %CompositeAdbInterface% entry, erase all value after "=" sign and then press ctrl+v(paste)... same on %SingleAdbInterface% entry but delete the "&" sign and any letters after it.
you need to do this on [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] part. SAVE it and close notepad.

3i. on device manager, right click on not properly installed driver for your device and click update driver software, then choose browse my computer for driver software --> locate the folder usb_driver then just click next etc etc..until you finish installing the driver. ok so thats the hard part.. the rest is just easy..

now for the adb part..
4. copy RKdump file you downloaded on the same folder as ADB.exe, usually its in folder Program Files (x86)/android/android-sdk/platform-tools
5. click menu and on search bar, type cmd, right click cmd.exe and run as administrator.
6. on the cmd command prompt, type "cd\program files (x86)/android/android-sdk/platform-tools" without the quote.
7. type

adb devices

there should be 1 device on the list. otherwise review previous steps.

8. type

adb push rkdump /data/

if no error then proceed, otherwise, review step 4

9. type

adb shell
*if you see a "#" sign and a cursor next to it then we're good to go.. otherwise.. review all above steps as you might somehow got the previous steps wrong.

10. type

chmod 755 /data/rkdump

*this will make RKDump executable

11. type

/data/rkdump /dev/block/mtdblock5 /sdcard/update.img

*this will copy update.img on your sdcard which most dev needed to cook rom

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I'm going to work right now but when I get home I'm going to run ADB and dump the ROMS. I been playing around with thing for about a week since I had no previous experience with Android devices and now I understand how crippled this device really is. I really hate that some of the Apps on this device can't be removed in its current state. I never really knew what the advantages of rooting the device would be. Most of you who play around with device for a while and read what other Android users can do will definitely find some inspiration to get it rooted.

Hats off to you guys for figuring out how to do this and hope this device is 95% similar to what you've been working on before so it doesn't take too much additional effort.

Where should I put the ROMS once I download them so they can be accessed?

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Guys, the RKdump utility only works for RK processors and architecture. So if your PMID is not a Rock Chip this proceedure will not work for you. In the Polaroid forum someone took a pmid apart and it is a All Winner Processor.

May be just me but the original post confused me a little as it said to delete everything after the = sign and after the & under the first entry.
Easy to see what was meant once you've done it but it could confused a simple person like me!